Low Fuel Indicator

Might want to post what is 'early'.

hth,

tom @

well,i'm going to post when should it go off?.less than a gallon in the tank?.

There is no way the fuel gage can read that little amount of fuel nor can your car stay running on that amount. Are you trying to destroy your fuel pump as quickly as possible? The best and safest time to fill you gas tank is when it reaches a quarter of a tank, not at an eighth of a tank. No such thing as an early indicator from what I've seen. I'm guessing yours goes off after a quarter tank has been reached.

Mine goes off much later that 1/8th of a tank in my ION3.

According to my manual...

"When the low fuel message is displayed, you may have less than 1.5 gallons of fuel left."

Looks like "may" might be the factor here. I personally don't like letting my tank get down too low, 1/4 tank I refill. But this is a personal choice.

later,

tom @

Oh I agree.. I hate to let it get too low too, just stating what the manual says.

My L200 has less than a gallon when the chime goes off. And yes, it will run on until there is no gas. OH, and BTW, low fuel has NOTHING to do with fuel pump life. The fuel pumps are a simple gearotor style pump and will run practically forever even without ANY gas in them. They are cooled by the gas running THROUGH them, not by the gas AROUND them. I've heard these lines of thinking before and there's just nothing to them. I've seen electric in tank pumps last 20,000 miles and I've seen them last 300,000 miles. As a matter of fact we have 2 trucks (out of the 33) where I work that both have 300,000 + miles and they both have the original fuel pumps. We never gas the trucks until they are empty. I personally have never filled ANY car of my own until it was empty and I've NEVER had a fuel pump failure.

Think what you want, but there are good reasons not to run the fuel too low (outside the obvious of the higher possibility of running out of fuel), including premature in tank fuel pump failure (which you do not agree with) and vapor condensation during cooler winter months.

Bob